A quick guide: How to install OpenCL for AMD GPUs on Linux Kubuntu 18.04 (and similar distro)
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cecht wrote:... only for the
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When I first read that, I thought, "Surely that can't be right!!!" ... I should have known better :-). Yes, indeed, that's exactly what it says on the box :-). I was momentarily tempted to 'correct' you until I decided that it would be much more sensible to check for myself :-)
However, when you look at the download size of 19.30 compared to 19.20 (for Ubuntu) it seems very likely that all the previous stuff (plus a bit more) is still there. I imagine a package just for RX 5700 Navi would be rather smaller if the support for all the other models had been culled. Based on your experiences, the support for (at least some) older models must be there but I suspect AMD are trying to protect the users from potential problems (and themselves from the bad publicity) in the event that some of the new stuff has 'unintended consequences' for older hardware:-).
So it's good to know there didn't seem to be anything of that nature in your case :-).
Cheers,
Gary.
cecht wrote:Koschi
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The thing with AMD drivers is that you need to uninstall the previous driver completely first before installing the new one.. ROCm sounds promisingly likely to improve with the laboratories promising to improve ROCm with cray ...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-ROCm-2.3-Released
https://rocm.github.io/blog.html
https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm
ROCm & Vulkan Drivers
run this after downloading file (google drive): https://is.gd/Install_gpl_ROCm_amd_drv_sh
sudo chmod 774 Install-gpl-ROCm-amd-drivers.sh
sudo ./Install-gpl-ROCm-amd-drivers.sh
RS
Here's an update from a prior
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Here's an update from a prior posting on this forum. That AMDGPU 19.3 driver stack worked well on my hosts with Ubuntu 18.04 and a Linux 4.5 kernel, until it didn't. Short story: I could get everything working again with 19.2 drivers on a Linux 5.0 kernel.
The AMDGPU 19.3 drivers actually knocked a few seconds off task times and ran fine for weeks, but a few days ago I noticed that amdgpu-utils could no longer adjust certain GPU settings. I knew that the problem wasn't with amdgpu-utils because it persisted in older versions. I thought it would be wise to first try reinstalling the AMDGPU drivers, but use the most recent supported driver, 19.2, for my RX460s & RX570s. I'll skip the sordid details of my bumbling around and dealing with various snafus and just summarize what I think were the relevant steps that I did on two hosts.
For uninstalling drivers, I used the command amdgpu-uninstall from within the downloaded amdgpu-pro-19.2-812932-Ubuntu-18.04 driver directory; for installing All-Open drivers, I used ./amdgpu-install; for installing OpenCL, ./amdgpu-pro-install --opencl=legacy --headless.
What I did: Uninstalled AMDGPU 19.3 driver, installed 19.2, rebooted, installed OpenCL, rebooted. At this stage the drivers weren't working and I still had the 14.5 kernel. So I uninstalled 19.2, reinstalled it, rebooted, installed OpenCL, rebooted, et voila!, the drivers now worked and the system was running a Linux 5.0 kernel. During the 19.2 uninstallation, I noticed in the verbose terminal output that kernel 5.0 components were being unpacked, but did not notice anything about 5.0 kernel components during the first 19.2 installation.
So, any ideas why a kernel update happened during the uninstallation process? Should I have gone about this differently? I'm not sure whether the 5.0 kernel would have been installed, and everything work as it should, with an uninstall/reinstall of the AMDGPU 19.3 driver.
EDIT: Fixed typos of kernel versions (14.5 -> 4.5; 15.0 -> 5.0)
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
I just added an RX560 to my
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I just added an RX560 to my LINUX box. The information on this thread was quite helpful.
Thank you all!
koschi wrote:I did try ROCm,
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I did have a question; what exactly are the ROCm drivers? Are they used for different applications other than opencl? In my setup, I installed the opencl using the legacy,pal and headless options which appears to be working fine.
What exactly are the Rocm
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What exactly are the Rocm drivers. I haven't dug into the details but it used to be based on amdgpu-pro drivers, so when you installed Rocm you got amdgpu-pro as well. They are moving away from amdgpu-pro but are still using some of the AMD proprietary binaries, from what I understand.
They are developping opencl so it can be run on more platforms, such as on the CPU and on APUs. They are also developing monitoring- and analysis tools, profilers. I think the main goal though is to develop alternatives to opencl because it has big entry barriers knowledge-wise but also when you run opencl there is a lot of overhead to start the program and feed the data. With Rocm you can make compute calls to the GPU inline in c or python, and the GPU will read and write directly in the memory.
In this process they have had to do changes to drivers and make small improvements to them.
Thanks. I did some digging
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Thanks.
I did some digging and came up with the gist of what you said. I guess if E@H begins coding applications which are specifically geared for ROCm, I'll need to install it. For now, I'm leaving well enough alone.
Matt White wrote:I did some
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There is more in-depth discussion on ROCm among Quantumhelos, Rolf, and Gary Roberts, beginning at this message on the "A very long standing issue I work on sporadically makes some progress ..." forum. It's worth a read through before diving into ROCm. There is also a ton of other interesting technical info in that forum.
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cecht wrote:So, any ideas why
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A: I could have waited a few days for the Ubuntu 18.04.3 update, which includes the Linux 5.0 kernel, https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/08/ubuntu-18-04-3-point-release
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
Today I noted that an Ubuntu
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Today I noted that an Ubuntu PC was offering to upgrade to the newest release so I opted to do this. Got all the way through the process and encountered total failure on the reboot. Could not get passed the Gnome Display manager. No matter what I did I was stuck so I loaded up a USB thumb drive and reloaded a new release of Ubuntu. I then "rejoined" einstein@home but could not get any gpu work. I forgot that I had a Radeon RX 550 card. This card would need AMD driver support so here is what I did in a cut and paste format: